Thanks OErjan and markleong, I will make a check myself.

garyng, if dd copies "bit by bit", probably it would write disk sectors from your image file to your bigger partition, but I am afraid, that the remaining sectors of this partition will not be properly initialised, unless you set up the filesystem on this partition beforehand.

Then comes the question of the cluster size (NTFS, FAT32). If the image file was taken from a FAT32 partition of the size below 8GB, then it is restored to a FAT32 partition of the size above 8GB, then the cluster size in both cases is different. I suspect serious problems in this situation.

What do you think about it?